ACM SIGMOD Conference 1979: Boston, Massachusetts

Database System Implementation

• Paula B. Hawthorn, Michael Stonebraker:
  Performance Analysis of a Relational Data Base Management System. 1-12
  
• David J. DeWitt:
  Query Execution in DIRECT. 13-22
  
• Patricia G. Selinger, Morton M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond A. Lorie, Thomas G. Price:
  Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System. 23-34
  

B-Trees

• David B. Lomet:
  Multi-Table Search for B-Tree Files. 35-42
  
• Arnold L. Rosenberg, Lawrence Snyder:
  Compact B-Trees. 43-51
  

User Interfaces

• Peter Buneman, Robert E. Frankel:
  FQL - A Functional Query Language. 52-58
  
• David W. Shipman:
  The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX (Abstract). 59
  
• Anthony I. Wasserman:
  The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN. 60-70
  
• Lawrence A. Rowe, Kurt A. Shoens:
  Data Abstractions, Views and Updates in RIGEL. 71-81
  

Performance Issues

• Clement T. Yu, K. Lam, M. K. Siu, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu:
  Performance Analysis of three Related Assignment Problems. 82-92
  
• Michael Hammer, Bahram Niamir:
  A Heuristic Approach to Attribute Partitioning. 93-101
  
• Giuseppe Pelagatti, Fabio A. Schreiber:
  Evaluation of Transmission Requirements in Distributed Database Access. 102-108
  
• Dushan Z. Badal, Gerald J. Popek:
  Cost and Performance Analysis of Semantic Integrity Validation Methods. 109-115
  

Database Concurrency Control

• H. T. Kung, Christos H. Papadimitriou:
  An Optimality Theory of Concurrency Control for Databases. 116-126
  
• Harry B. Hunt III, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz:
  The Complexity of Testing Predicate Locks. 127-133
  
• Keki B. Irani, Hing-Lung Lin:
  Queuing Network Models for Concurrent Transaction Processing in a Database System. 134-142
  

Database Dependency Theory

• Joachim Biskup, Umeshwar Dayal, Philip A. Bernstein:
  Synthesizing Independent Database Schemas. 143-151
  
• David Maier, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Yehoshua Sagiv:
  Testing Implications of Data Dependencies (Abstract). 152
  
• Ronald Fagin:
  Normal Forms and Relational Database Operators. 153-160
  

Database Semantics I

• E. F. Codd:
  Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning (Abstract). 161
  
• Yannis Vassiliou:
  Null Values in Data Base Management: A Denotational Semantics Approach. 162-169
  
• Edward Sciore:
  Improving Semantic Specification in a Relational Database. 170-178
  

Database Semantics II

• Carlo Zaniolo:
  Design of Relational Views over Network Schemas. 179-190
  
• Ramez Elmasri, Gio Wiederhold:
  Data Model Integration Using the Structural Model. 191-202